Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors

E.J. Reuland; Y.S. Winter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_6

Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors

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Expressions such as English himself are interpreted as locally bound anaphors in certain syntactic environments and are exempt from the binding conditions in others. This article provides a unified semantics for himself in both of these uses. Their difference is reduced to the interaction with the syntactic environment. The semantics is based on an extension of the treatment of pronominals in variable-free semantics. The adoption of variable-free semantics is inspired by the existence of proxy-readings, which motivate an analysis based on Skolem functions. It is explained why certain anaphor types allow proxy-readings whereas others do not.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Anaphora Processing and Applications
Subtitle of host publication	7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings
Editors	Sobha Lalitha Devi, António Branco, Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher	Springer
Pages	69-79
Number of pages	11
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-04975-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-04974-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_6
Publication status	Published - 2009

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	5847
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Reuland, E. J., & Winter, Y. S. (2009). Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors. In S. Lalitha Devi, A. Branco, & R. Mitkov (Eds.), Anaphora Processing and Applications: 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings (1 ed., pp. 69-79). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5847). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_6

Reuland, E.J. ; Winter, Y.S. / Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors. Anaphora Processing and Applications: 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings. editor / Sobha Lalitha Devi ; António Branco ; Ruslan Mitkov. 1. ed. Springer, 2009. pp. 69-79 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Reuland, EJ & Winter, YS 2009, Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors. in S Lalitha Devi, A Branco & R Mitkov (eds), Anaphora Processing and Applications: 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5847, Springer, pp. 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_6

Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors. / Reuland, E.J.; Winter, Y.S.
Anaphora Processing and Applications: 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings. ed. / Sobha Lalitha Devi; António Branco; Ruslan Mitkov. 1. ed. Springer, 2009. p. 69-79 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5847).

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Reuland EJ , Winter YS. Binding without Identity: Towards a Unified Semantics for Bound and Exempt Anaphors. In Lalitha Devi S, Branco A, Mitkov R, editors, Anaphora Processing and Applications: 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings. 1 ed. Springer. 2009. p. 69-79. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_6

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